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Volunteers for the study weren't hard to find, notes Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern University and lead author of the paper: "People are happy when they are paid to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Hillcoat does make one important addition to the story: flashbacks to what life was like when the Woman (Charlize Theron) was still alive. They weren't good times--the world was well on the way to environmental ruin--but at least the Man still had a partner. Theron's presence may be a nod to producers who wanted a female star in the picture, but it's not entirely successful in terms of adhering to McCarthy's intent. Theron is graceful as always, but meeting the Woman only makes her absence more troubling and alters our relationship with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...people for. But they're a little too country; they think window screens are for stuck-up people, and not once since I've known them have they been able to use their cell phones. Besides, they live in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. - a town so small, there weren't enough people to stop someone from naming it Hoosick Falls. Cassandra's brother Brian is very into video games and anime and is definitely going to be our choice for guardian once Laszlo turns 15. Her brother Ian and his wife Tricia just had a son exactly Laszlo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...with the fact that neither she nor the five other Top Chef contestants whose recipes and faces are being used by Schwan's are getting paid for them. As for how the meals taste, she says, "They're not bad. Of course, mine was better, and the vegetables weren't overcooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Top Chef TV Dinners Live Up to Billing? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Harris trying to tell us that they weren't exactly crazy for the job in the first place? Sure, he said they eventually came to love their work. But that makes us wonder what this line really means: "We would not know how to describe it to our successors, other than to advise them to hang on for the ride of their lives...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot House Masters Say Adieu | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

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